Yep they are the ones Emma Our formula is $28.95 or something in the supermarkets and $23 at the chemist warehouse

Whats everyone up to this weekend?

Weighed in today, 40g in 2 weeks so not good (yes, I used the same scales). I am wondering whether I should be topping up with formula each night. Seriously, she has only gained about 200g in more than a month, it's not good is it?

I looked at formula in Coles and the only small one's are the S26, I wanted to try something else before I buy a whole tin. I have bought another popper of S26 and am going to give it to her tonight for the last feed and then top her up with me, I did it the other way around last time and i think she was full. Fingers crossed, she has me a little worried. How much are the formula babies having now? I am thinking of just giving 125ml and letting her drink til she is full on me. And I will repeat again tomorrow night with the other 125ml

I am having lunch tomorrow with 3 girls from another forum I ahve posted on for around 8 years (and have only met one of them). And Father's Day is at my parents and DH is doing surf n' turf for a late lunch for everyone

Monica - how nice you meeting up with other online ladies... There is a Sydney meet in a few weeks time on here... I'm more than likely going to head up!
As for the formula, Sophie is a bit hit a miss but on avg she drinks 180-190mL.. Today she has drained ALL of her bottles so far, but yesterday she was hirrible leaving about 80mL so only drinking about 130-140mL.
Was the MCHN concerned about her weight? could you possible call a LC and have a chat rather than heading to FF of your not 100% keen for it? As long as Nina is happy another few days won't really mean alot in the scheme of things. Although, if she was extremely unsettled I would be giving other advice

I just weighed her at the chemist, I didn't see the nurse though I am going to ring the centre on Monday.
She isn't unsettled at all. We are stll having the sleep cycle issues but it's not a hunger thing. I don't want to stop BF altogether but am prepared to top her up if need be. Perhaps I have quantity but not quality because in the mornings when I am full as, Nina will only take one boob (I do offer the other) and she is stuffed and I can often express 200ml out of just one so there is definitely a good supply. She also never cries out of hunfer, ever, some circumstances have meant she has gone over 4 hours in the past and it doesn't faze her at all. She feeds well but she just isn't a hungry baby

Monica - Sophie is the same, i think honestly she has only cried about 3 or 4 times out of hunger. Could you maybe intorduce a solid feed ratehr than the formula?

I really don't want to start solids under 6 months. I know it's only 6 weeks away but she has eczema and if she is anything like me, is going to be an allergic type baby, I just don't want to intirduce too early and set her up for that.

Oh my gosh. Thank you for that link! That describes him in every way. I've never heard of wonder weeks before, but it makes a lot of sense. Wow, i feel so much better knowing that i'm not going crazy. Thank you, thank you, thank you!



I found that i need to offer the breast first, and then top up with formula. I'd rather him get as much of me as possible, and it helps with my supply issues too. Sometimes if he's being really difficult, i'll do breast-formula-breast. Just for comparision, Will normally drinks me (for about 5 mins a side) and then 90mLs of formula. I've found comp feeding to be soo good- good luck!

Well, i'd just plain had enough today. I dumped Will in the car, hastily threw some stuff in the nappy bag and headed for my favourite shopping centre about an hour away. We had a GREAT day. William loved looking at everything, all the shop assistants smiled and gooed at him, and i had fun shopping around, getting a hand massage and being told by a random guy that i had a great ass It was just so great to be OUT, with other human beings. Ahh...nice

Mon - sorry to hear Nina hasnt gained much weight I know how hard it can be when you see such a low weight gain. I was in tears before we turned to formula. I felt so guilty. Guilty about not giving her enough and guilty about going to FF. Its really not an easy job being a Mummy. It does have some hard times thats for sure. I think try the top up feeds and see how you go from there. I was told that once you introduce solids they can cut back their Milk intake and if she isnt having much at the moment it might not be a good idea just yet. I think holding off like you say is a good idea. Chelsea has about 200mls a bottle but some are only 140mls. She is still feeding 5 times a day. Goodluck with it all anyway.

Amy - Bet you feel like a sexy biaatch right now

Neph, he looks so grown up standing there holding onto the table.

Bee, that used to happen to my SIL’s boys. A tooth would pop out and then bam... gone. Good luck with your career decisions.

Amy, don’t you just love it when they changed their routine and all of sudden become super clingy. Just trying to keep us on our toes! Your day sounds like it was really good!

I took Alan to the Well Baby Clinic today... very interesting. He is 7.32kg now and has gained around 200g in the last month. The nurse suggested he starts solids because he is still feeding every 2-3hrs during the day and he hasn’t gained much. He is still happy and content though so I’m not worried. I'm planning on starting solids Tuesday week anyway.

The advice she has given me is doing my head in! When Madison was going to the Baby Clinic 2yrs ago they kept telling me; no solids till 6 months (I started at 4), no peanuts/milk/eggs until 12months (which I listened to).

Now guess what I’ve been told... solids from 4 months, give them anything... peanuts/milk/eggs. Apparently the recommendations have changed. Over the past 10 years they have advised against giving peanuts/eggs/milk to children under 12 months to try and reduce the allergy rate. Apparently the rate of allergies has gone up and they are now recommending that giving the babies anything and everything from 4 months is the way to go and will help prevent allergies from developing

What I HAVE gained from all this random inconsistent advice is... do whatever the heck I like!

Well, good news is she scoffed 250ml.
Bad news is she had an allergic reaction and we ended up in emergency!
So that solves the formula issue, no more until we see the ECHN as perhaps she is lactose intolerant. Very strange given she was FF for the first 8 days of her life with NO side effects whatsoever.

It was really scary, she became really red and rashy thin got these huge welts on her neck and upper torso, I threw her in the pram and ran the two blocks to the hospital as she started doing this funny thing with her mouth and I worried her throat was itchy and closing over. The waiting room was over flowing but they saw up straight away and we were there about 2 hours for monitoring and they gave her an antihistamine. We have to go to the GP tomorrow for a check-up and continue the medication for 3 days in case it flares up again though they doubt it will.

The nurse also told me not to be so hard on myself and whatever BM she was getting was good, there was no such thing as poor quality and she seems happy and healthy,a little skinny but nothing to worry about. Start her on solids at 6 months (so only 6 weeks away) as she said allergies might crop up before then so I have been right to wait.

Glad I didn't ho into a bottle of wine earlier like I was going to!

Mon how scary Im sorry you had to go through that. I would have been scared as hell. How is she holding up today. Wow I have never heard of a baby having a bad reaction to formula. See its all a sign to say that she wants what your giving her. You have the best stuff for her and I think you a doing a great job. She may just be evening out onto a percentile line that she is going to stick to. Chels was born on the 50th and she has dropped to the 25th and has stayed on there now. Just means Nin may be tall and skinny! Nothing wrong with that

Nyree - How frustrating!! I hate how everyone gives you different advice. I think I will still wait until at least 12 months for most things. We did with Breanna and she doesnt have any allergies so far. We still havent given her peanuts

Monica, firstly MASSIVE hugs babe :hug:

Secondly, what I am about to post is JMO so if you want me to pull my head in, feel free .

Personally, I think 200gm in just over a month is a fantastic weight gain. The one thing I have learnt since becoming a mother of two is that people tell you so much stuff to first time mothers, it does your head in and you become so paranoid about anything and everything.

Not sure if it applies in your state but in Victoria they have just introduced a new program with the health nurses called "mother lead information" so when they fill out the book on what your child is doing, basically the mother now fills it out rather than the nurse guessing that's what the baby is doing. And each baby is different.

I think that's the one thing we forget. Every baby is different. Some babies are smaller and drink less than others. Some crawl before others, some talk before others etc etc etc. I think society as a whole make it such a competition with babies that parents panic if "their baby isn't doing what page 49 says they should be doing" in the baby bible book that everyone tells us we should read. Babies do things in their own time, babies sleep when they are tired, eat when they are hungry and will drink/eat until they are full.

If bubba is settled, doing enough wet nappies during the day and isn't floppy, irritated, miserable, then I wouldn't be concerned with how little or how much they had because they are having what is enough for THEM. You can't force someone to eat if they aren't hungry.

As for the formula reaction - Nathan went through that. I am so sorry Nina did too and I am hoping she is ok today. Nathan is on lactose free formula and is fine with that. I know as he gets older I am going to have issues with introducing dairy into his diet which I am not looking forward to, hense why I am holding off on the solids department. Currently atm I am lucky to get 3 bottles a day into him and he is leaving around 80mls each time (from 180ml bottle). But he is still sleeping well and is happy when awake so I am not too worried. I know he is due for a growth spurt soon.

I think, like what Nyree said, health nurses tell us such conflicting information but if you know in your heart that bubs is ok and what you are doing is enough for Nina, I wouldn't be concerned. In fact, the last health nurse I saw with Emma did my head in so much I stopped going because I knew what I was doing was best for Emma and I was sick of her telling me if "I don't do it this way blah blah blah". She can stick it because I have a very healthy, happy and slightly annoying at times nearly 3 year old .

Monica, I am so sorry you had to go through that! I hope Nina is doing ok now.

SK, I'm with you! I'm over the conflicting advice!

What are all the Dad's up to this Father's Day?

My Dad is here from Rockhampton. It was a suprise for him from my Step Mum. This morning we went to the Markets, then went out to lunch and now he and my Step Mum are at my Sisters having an afternoon BBQ. We're chillin at home and Nathan is having a snooze.

Nathan scored two pairs of Rip Curl thongs, Quicksilver shorts, two Wii games, handmade craft from Madison and I had his Wedding ring engraved with 'Madison (diamond in the middle) Alan'.

Hope all the first time Dad's are having a great day!

Yes, Yes i do


Oh No Monica! That would have been such a scare for you- i'm glad that she was okay, but what an awful thing for you to have to go through.

I'm a chicken, anytime we do anything new i make sure DH is around to help out if something goes wrong!

We had a great fathers day today. Dh got breakfast in bed, and then we had lunch with my family...and in about two hours his Dad is coming over for dinner. So we had 8 people for lunch, now 4 people for dinner! I feel like i've been in the kitchen all day, but it's been a lot of fun.

William also had some avacado today, and adored it. So we'll throw the rest of the Farex out, and start a very slow journey towards solids...i can't believe we are doing this!! It feels too soon...but i also think it's too soon for him to be rolling over too!

I also got the GREATEST sleep on Friday/Saturday night- DH took over the night shift, so i snoozed from 7pm-8am. It was blissful, and exactly what i needed. I feel soo refreshed. Oh, except that i was woken up at 4am by one very painfully swollen breast, i had to race to the kitchen and try to put together my pump, bleary eyed. LOL. Overall though, a fantastic weekend.

How did everyone else's days go?

Hi girls, have been so busy and tired I haven't been on here.

We didn't do much today, just took Lil to the park and had a picnic for lunch. She is fast asleep in bed and I am thinking about joining her. Hubby is watching the football.

Amy, I sleep like that every night and still feel exhausted!! Sounds like you had a busy day today.

Nyree, lucky Alan scoring all those cute things! What conflicting advice about solids!! Lil eats all kinds of fruit and vegies at the moment and I also have her eating yoghurt for lunch (it says from 6 months on the pack but she is only four weeks off). It is so frustrating, you don't know what they can eat and what they can't! The nurse told me the other day to start giving her meat at 6 months and I thought you had to wait til around 8 months.

I have Lil on 3 meals a day. Farax and pureed fruit mixed together for breakfast, yoghurt for lunch and vegies for dinner. Have reduced her bottles down to 180ml, still every three hours five times a day. That is what the nurse said to do. I feel like she is eating too much food but she seems to be enjoying it. She weighed in at 7 kilos too.

Monica, you poor thing! I would have panicked too. I hope she is doing better now.

Hi to everyone else!

Monica - Im so glad that she is ok and you had to go thru that I agree with SK about pretty much everything she said

We did nothing special for fatehrs day DH wnet to so car show thing in sydney and i worked 12-8.. I had breaky at my parents with my brother, nephew and nan and pop.

Summa - great news on the solids. Seems she is doing really well on the 5 bottles/3 meals. We're thinking of introducing the 3rd meal in soon, possibly about 3 weeks time. Soph is down to only 4 bottles a day now, and she is having 200mL water (+4scoops) The tine says 4-6 months should have 250mL water (+5scoops), i think from tomorrow we might go there as she is dring all her bottles lately.

Does anyone elses bub only poop in a clean nappy??

Thanks for the well wishes guys, Nina is fine, back to normal.

Summa - wow about the solids, sounds like Lil is teaming ahead, good stuff.
Em - what do you mean, like won't poo in a wet nappy? I've never noticed tbh.

Well day sleeps are officially shit. She just cannot seem to get past the 40mins and I am sick of going in and patting her - have been so so EVERY day sleep for about a month I think. I might call tresillian and see what they say. I don't have to do it for the night sleep AND if she feeds early enough in the morning- like this morning was 6.15, she goes back down straight away and can go more than one cycle - so far she has been down an hour. Odd child

We had a nice day yesterday at my Mum and Dad's. DH and I did the food, it was all very yum.
He said he had a nice day.

I bought a hand and foot print plaque thing ages ago so am determined to do that today before they get any bigger!

Busy week.
A friend is coming for lunch tomorrow, Wednesday we have counselling and Thursday I had MG and a solids talk. DH's shifts have changed a little for the week so he is getting wed/thurs off which will be great. He has organised to go to a mate's place not this weekend but next on Sunday and I overhead the phone conversation and he said they could hang out the Monday as well. I pointed out to him that that would mean I don't get a break at all for that whole week. Not sure if it sunk in. I feel bad as he has virtually no social life,I just don't know if I can go 7 days of doing it all on my own!

Monica, how does she sleep in her cot? Do you wrap her? Does she sleep on her back or tummy? Is she in a sleeping bag?

This is how she sleeps. She is wrapped and in an anti-roll thingo.
Always on her back

at her night feed, does she feed then go straight to bed? is it possible to change her 'routine' to play feed sleep, rather than feed play sleep? we did that for a while casue her day sleeps were shocking. It didnt last forever, prob about 10 days or so.

Oh, and i hear you on no break for a entire week feels like im a single mummy most days. he doesn;t even want to help when he gets home from work

My girls are really good Bee thank you for asking, Paige is such a good baby I don't really have much to say I am so grateful she is so good as I have my hands full with the other two on my own!

Sorry I don't post much, I do read all the time and keeping up with whats going on with all you girls.

Hubby had a good day yesterday, I got him a mug with some photos of the girls, our dog and his truck..all the things he loves. Rhianna made him a rock at playgroup that says my dad rocks and Taylor bought him a torch from the fathers day stall. We made him breakfast and he had to go to work at lunchtime..he wasn't real happy about that!

I have to go into hospital next Thursday for day surgery and I have some milk expressed in the freezer, I tried to give her a bottle yesterday and she wouldn't take it, so I have to persevere with her otherwise she is going to get very hungry and my poor mum who will have to look after her...I think the procedure only takes 4 hours so hopefully I am not gone to long! I think for what I remember someone else had this problem????

Em, of a night we do cluster feeding. So I feed her generally between 6/7 then again up to an hour and a half later, either from my boob is they are feeling full again or a bottle of EBM so I guess we feed, play, shower if it's that night, then feed, sleep.

During the day we were doing feed, play sleep BUT if she doesn't sleep long, it ends up being play, feed, sleep (and perhaps play again before sleep), it just depends.

RJ - I had day surgery for a bum problem (LOL) a couple of months ago, not haemorrhoids though, I had a Fischer that needed to be cut out, so essentially they cut the muscle, it's called a sphincterotomy - how lovely. Are you going under a general?

PM if you are too embarrassed to post.

Monica, Lily has the same problem, doesn't sleep for more than 40 minutes at a time during the day. I had a Night Nanny come around to help me with it but she said since she is sleeping 12 hours at night not to worry. It is a pain cause I really don't get a chance to get much done in those 40 minutes!

Rochelle, good luck with the day surgery. I have no idea about the feeding thing sorry!

Emma I was initially worried about the 3rd meal thinking it was too much but she enjoys it so why not! It is more work though, doing 5 bottles and 3 meals, I feel like I am forever feeding.

A little embarrassed, I just have to remind myself it is common I have got internal hemorrhoids and have to get them banded. I have to have a colonoscopy! It is not going to be fun! I have to clean out my system the day before, and can only have liquid diet for two days before.

I am going under, the doctor said the anesthetic wont affect my breast milk, I am a little worried about not eating properly for a couple of days. Monica did you have to do this?

Rhianna used to only sleep for 30 mins at a time during the day, nothing I did worked..she grew out of it at about 12 months and then used to sleep for an hour.

I went under a GA and was told my BM would be affected for 12 hours and to give her EBM????
I only had to fast from the night before, didn't need a colonoscopy.
Seriously,once you have had these attended to, you will feel SO much better. As apprehensive as I was going under the knife again (scared shitless actually), it is the best thing I have done

Summa - What time do you feed and bottle?? Seems so hard to fit all that in a day...

Rochelle - no embarrasment here.. You will feel better!!

Good Morning girls.

Rochelle - hope all goes well. I saw your facebook status that your daughter has gone on camp for 12 days wow thats along one is that for school?

Summa - wow i dont know how you fit all those feeds in!

We are still on 5 bottles ( the 2 month old size 150ml water + 10mls extra water so 160ml with 5 scoops)

Monica - sorry i dont have any help with ninas sleep i think that giving the sleep school a call maybe the way to go. RE your OH i wish mine would have a social life! He is such a home body! Me and him are just completly different.

Emma - shame about working yesterday - hope you OH enjoyed his morning with his girls.

Yesterday we went and saw my family at my pops nursing home for lunch, than visited OH's father at his work, than went to a local park to see OH's family - where Ry and i went on the slippery dip which he thought was really funny, than back to my mum and dads for nibbles,dinner and dessert. It was such a fantastic day. I got OH a ring and hand the inside engraved I Love You Daddy. OH really enjoyed being a 'daddy' yesterday.

We were back to the docs again this morning. Ry has a middle ear infection. He just woke up with all crusty stuff over his ear! Another lot of medication and hopefully this is the last thing!!
Ry hasnt put any weight on for just over two weeks now.

Awww Mon Nina looks so cute all ready for bed and that smile!!!!

Summa once we started Breanna on 2 meals a day we cute back to 4 bottles. I found it to much otherwise. She started rejecting bottles. You might find it easier to just offer abit more milk each feed if she is hungry and only giving 4. You are pretty much always feeding otherwise.

Alana - Im sorry to hear Ry is still sick poor little guy. I hope he gets better very quickly.

Rochelle - I hope all goes well with the op. I found that if I just kept trying with the bottle Chels ended up taking it. I guess if she is really hungry she will hopefully take something. A sippy coy is another idea....

We had a lovely weekend. Didnt do much but it was nice Had lunch with Damians parents on FD and dinner with my family. We also had a cake for my brother as its his birthday today.

Emma we do bottle at 6:30am breakfast at 7:30am, bottle 9:30am, bottle at 12:30pm, lunch at 1:30pm, bottle at 3:30pm dinner at 5:00pm and last bottle at 6:00pm when she goes to bed. As you can see I am always feeding.

Rochelle, sounds uncomfortable but it will be worth it.

Alana, poor Ry, how awful. I hope it clears up soon.

Bee, I tried to cut back to 4 bottles but she refuses too. She still wants her 5 bottles a day but now I have cut back to 160ml of water rather than the 240ml. She is such a guts. I had her weighed and she was right on average so I guess she is only taking what she needs? It is still annoying feeding so much.

Summa - are you sure she is wanting the extra bottle? or whingey cause she is tired without day sleeping?

You could be right. She does need the last bottle of the night to get her through the 12 hours and she falls asleep straight after. I don't know whether to try and do bottles four hourly which is hard because she is like a bloody clock, every three hours on the dot she wants a bottle. I think it may be more the comfort of sucking than anything else.

I'm thinking comfort sucking aswell Summa. If you wanna stretch for 4 hours, the first few days will be hard, but she will get used to it... BUT is saying that, i have never ahd to listen to a bubba scream for food, Soph has never cried for a feed..
What is lil's stats? weight? height?

Chelsea goes 4 hours in between now. Use to be three. As Em said may be hard for the first few days but she will get there. I wouldnt cut back her intake per bottle but increase the time in between. You will wear yourself out otherwise doing all that feeding. Plus it gives Lil time to have a sleep if she wants with 4 hourly feeds.

My lil girl is just sitting above 6kgs. She is just below the 25th percentile in weight

if your worried about bubs not getting enough 4 hourly feeds sophie is 7.27kg and on the 97th percentile

Oh, and while we are talking day sleeps, i think a switch has flicked for Sophie. this past few weeks her day sleeps have been awesome!!! she goes 2 hours without a wake-up for the dummy or anything and when she wakes, she is always laughing and smiling! I hope it lasts, but as im used to i'm sure she'll change it up for me soon enough!

3 hours this morning, then back to 45 mins for the next sleep
I should be happy with the 3hours I guess and at least if she does that every day, 2 to 3 x 45 mins sleep before night time would be ok

Nina is just over 50th percentile

Monica - when we were having probs and i spoke to the ECHN, she said as long as she gets 3 shortish naps in its all good She will go back to normal soon for you i hope..

Monica sounds like she is going through one of those lovely developement moments. I am sure she will go back to a great sleeping pattern soon xox

But it's been a month?????

I read that this "wonder week" is the worst Peaks around 19weeks and can last from 17-22.. Hope she settles soon Monica

Just wanted to show you all where we are going to have Sophies Naming Day. We have booked it for October 17th and we're ging to have it here
I'm so excited about it, and so is Scott!!

I hear you Monica! - My little man has been a cat napper pretty much the whole time (except for those blissful newborn weeks)! He only ever has 40 min cat naps during the day, even in the pram!! He might have 3-4 cat naps a day then wakes at least once overnight for a feed, but otherwise settles well. I have tried everything during the day but have now just accepted that this is what he does as it was making me more frustrated trying to get him back to sleep. Its definitely harder trying to entertain him for a longer time and also not much time for yourself but I can't change it and so have given up trying As he's getting older he's happier on less sleep which is one good thing and hoping he will sleep longer once we drop a sleep in a few months


Emma - thats great that Sophie is having such good day sleeps for you!! Enjoy it!! The naming day sounds exciting!

Emma, what a beautiful place for a naming day! We are having Williams the weekend after at the church DH & I met in...not sure where the 'after' party is going to be yet, we will probably be moving house around that time too! Agh.

As far as food goes, we are still b/feeding every 3 hours, with a few formula top-ups (90mLs) here and there. I'm not too worried about the 3 hourly feeds, i do know that breastmilk doesn't sit in the system as long and he's happy, gaining weight well and sleeping through the night.

Alana, why is Ry only on the 2 month amount? I was just curious about the benefits of giving him a smaller amount- are you still b/feeding as well?

I am EXHAUSTED. We have a full house here- mother in law, father in law, sister in law...but it's only until Wednesday, and then they all leave at once and DH & I have the whole house to ourselves for the weekend....for the first time in almost 2 months. Needless to say what our plans are this weekend!

I was just coming in here to say I have thought about the sleep issue all avo and have accepted the fact that this is how she wants to do things! Hopefully we can keep the first sleep of the day in tact which is when I can get heaps of stuff done. From tomorrow I am going to try the following.

Wake at 6.30am and feed
Back to sleep by 7.15 til 10
Feed at 10am (hopefully she will sleep from 7.15 like she did this morning)
Play for up to 2 hours
Sleep at 12
Wake at 1
Play til 2
Feed at 2
Play til 3.30, down for sleep
Sleep til 4.30
Play then feed at 6.30, in bed at 7pm

Does that make sense?

I was reading BL today and it said to make sure the last sleep of the day doesn't go past 4pm but I am pushing that til 4.30 give or take, then she will be awake for up to 3 hours. On the nights she is bathed/showered, this can happen before 7

Now that I have put that in writing, none of it will go to plan, LOL.
I really want to give it a good crack and see how we go, a week or so I think is recommended, perhaps a little longer

Monica- that sounds like a great plan!

What are you doing for awake activities? I found that about two weeks ago i needed to really step up the stuff i was doing with Will...so we know use the Jolly Jumper for an hour each morning (REALLY tires the little sod out!), he comes out with me to hang out the washing, roll around on the grass, and eat bugs (okay, the eating bugs was an accident, really). I have lots of jumpy, active music playing, and i sing and dance with doing the washing, or ironing, and just to feel less guilty about watching TV, i makeup actions to the advertising jingles

Maybe tiring her out will help with her sleep pattern?

no benefit - thats just how much i can get into him and sometimes thars a struggle - nope not breastfeeding at all anymore - milk dried up in about 24hours was able to give some in the morning and night for about a week after that than just nights for maybe another week, very glad i switched when i did certainly didnt have much milk left.

hope it works with your plan monica - looks good

Emma, Lil is 7kg, right on average, no idea about the percentile thing. She is above average for height which is strange cause both me and hubby are short. I stretched the first feed out to 4 hours this morning and will try to keep doing it through the day.

Gorgeous place for the naming ceremony!

Monica, that sounds like a great plan, good luck with it.

Amy, sounds like you are in for a naughty weekend! I am exhausted and I don't even have house guests!

We are heading up to Noosa on Friday for 3 nights. Hubby has booked me a day at the day spa up there and also to have my hair cut and coloured. I am sooooo looking forward to it. And just the little break from Lil will be good. As much as I love the little girl, she is very tiring at the moment, just so full on!

Wow Nep, look at the little emperor go!!

Emma, looks like a great place for Sophie's naming day - hope it goes well.
We still haven't booked DS baptism yet.

We've got a chiro apptmt this morning & a few little errands to run. So far the chiro is going well, DS can now pass wind from his rear end. I know it seems a little odd to be excited about that but you have no idea what an achievement that is for him! This will be our 3rd session today.

I've also noticed he has amazing day sleeps the day after his chiro apptmt? Not sure why but i'm not complaining! He's always been a terrible sleeper. Last night he had me up 4 times....3 of those for feeds. He's still BF'ing every 3 hrly so i tried him on a tiny bit of farex this morning. We'll see how it goes.

Rikki, good luck with the surgery, i'm sure you'll feel so much better about it after you've had it done.

Gotta run & have a shower while DS is down for his morning nap....no doubt he'll be up by 10am. Hi to everyone i've missed, hope everyone is doing well.

Well, that didn't go to plan at all. She woke at 4am and I couldn't get her back to sleep so we fed and she was back down by 4.30 (she also woke 2 other times during the night, first at the 40 min mark which she never does for her big sleep, ever so that was odd and at about midnight I think). I should have woken her at 6.30 to start the day but I over slept and I figured it's not a good day to start. She woke of her own accord at 8.45.

I have also decided that the 3 hours of awake time at night will be between 5-8 and bed time will be 8 and not 7 as BL suggested. We'll see how we go today.

Amy, she still likes her swing and the play mat and my SIL just gave us her bumbo so we are using that now too. I do sometimes take her out when I do the washing, I just strap her in the pram and she stares at the trees and looks for the birds. We also read from time to time. Not really sure what else we can do but she seems happy with the routine atm

Summa - have a great break, you deserve it

monica - how long do you try to re-settle her of a night? I always try to re-settle for 30mins and if she won;t go back down, i offer her a 1/4 or 1/2 feed depending on what time it is and she goes right back to sleep for another few hours.

Toffee - I still get excied when Sophie has bum wind! she has huge ones and i can;t help but laugh at her... Glad the chiro is working out well, is it expensive?

Summa - so jealous of your trip away... i would kill to have some time away. We're (mainly me) am thinking that when i get the rest of my maternity leave money we might book a short trip away to Fiji. Just for 3-5 nights maybe.. Just relax time, and Sophie can stay with nanny and Poppy

I'm off to work today, so when Soph wakes up, i'll drop her off with my SIL.. Last time she went there, she came home with feet paintings...hehe I call it Aunty *insert name* daycare!! hehe

Yeah, probably about 20 mins or so. I put the dummy back in and stroke her head, get back in to bed and wait, last night I think I got up about 4 times in 20 mins. She had one side and a bit of the other then slept for just over 4 hours

Mon - DS is a rotton day sleeper too. It's a good day if he sleeps for longer than one hour in one session. My day is roughly like the timeline you set out above. I

Summa - hope it goes okay with stretching out Lil's feeds. I heard from someone that they were able to do it by extending the gap between each feeds by 15 minutes, which wasn't enough time the child got too distressed and they soon adjusted. I think babies learn from how much you feed them so if you adjust (within reason of course! ), they do too.

Amy - talk about a workload! So many people. I have no idea how you've coped. We haven't caught up for a while about the MCN. How are you going? My new liners will be arriving soon which is good - the liners rock! I got some large BBH in the last order and they're huge on him but they work. He's well out of the small BBH now, I had hoped he'd stay in them for longer. We're still using disposables at night because as much as I don't like them, they are more absorbant. I'm borrowing my mum's overlocker this weekend and will soon get to making more padding - I hope!

Tanya - I've come to the same conclusion with DS too, some babies just aren't good sleepers.


Re sleep:
DS still wakes for one early morning feed but he drinks so fast now it's not the big deal it was when he was a newborn; I'm normally back in bed within half an hour. I usually have to resettle him between 1-2am which involves rewrapping him and putting the dummy back in. He's an active, strong little man (as that photo will attest!) so I guess he needs that early morning feed and will sleep the full night when either he's ready or I get some outside help. He's a grizzly baby and I spend most of his awake time playing games or moving him around the interactive things I've set up around the house. And when it's meal times... I don't need to look at the clock, he throws huge tantrums with the recent addition of squealing. Fortunately, because he loves his dummy, he settles quickly - it's keeping him asleep that's the fun part.

I've decided to give DS a break from the solids for a couple more weeks. Although he was starting to take the spoon, his reaction told me that I don't think he's quite ready yet. It was worth the try though! I really want to make sure his little body is ready to handle it. My whole life I've had digestion issues and I was on solids early and apparently there's a link? Given my history, it's best I take it slowly for DS.